Seven Steps for Developing a Proactive Schoolwide Discipline Plan: A Guide for Principals and Leadership Teams

In Pursuit of Positive and Proactive Behaviors – The Challenge   Every school wants to provide a safe, preventive, and positive learning environment, but recent shifts in societal and cultural norms have given rise to reactions that can be injurious, uncivil, and discriminatory. Creating and maintaining positive and proactive school discipline plans while preserving societal values and norms is more challenging than ever. Urges to get toughand enact zero tolerance policies may give impetus, but not tools. Schools are often left wondering how to address problematic behaviors, make real change happen, and accomplish their intended goals.   Seven Steps shows practitioners and pre-service educators what, why, and how to build effective school-wide discipline practices using both data and documented successes. It offers a step-by-step process that maximizes teaching and learning and prevents problem behavior while establishing and maintaining desirable behavior to enhance school success. Seven procedural steps show how to: ·         Develop, teach, and maintain schoolwide behavior expectations ·         Correct problem behaviors ·         Sustain your plan for the long haul Get started in creating a positive and supportive environment by exposing students to the best possible practices by all teachers in all settings.  

Table of Contents:
Prologue About the Authors Introduction SECTION I: FOUNDATIONS 1. Guiding Principles in Providing Quality Education for All Students Guiding Principle One: Secure Active and Integrated Participation and Support From All Levels of Stakeholders Guiding Principle Two: Ensure That School Principal Is an Effective Instructional Leader and Active Participant in All Implementation Guiding Principle Three: Develop Systems to Ensure All Students Have Access to the Best Instructional and Behavioral Practices for School Success Guiding Principle Four: Implement Instructional and Behavior Practices and Systems Concurrently Within Multitiered Support Continuum Guiding Principle Five: Implement Support Systems With Fidelity to Ensure Sustainability Guiding Principle Six: Use Positive Reinforcement Judiciously Guiding Principle Seven: Manage Data Effectively and Efficiently Guiding Principle Eight: Utilize a Building Leadership Team-Based Approach Guiding Principle Nine: Consider Context and Culture When Implementing Procedural Details 2. Understanding the Teaching–Learning Process Stages Involved in the Process of Learning a Skill SECTION II: COMPONENTS OF A PROACTIVE SCHOOLWIDE DISCIPLINE PLAN 3. Step 1: Getting Started Conduct Preliminary Schoolwide Discipline Plan Survey Establish a Leadership Team Establish Need for the Plan Communicate Effectiveness of the Plan Explore How Plan Can Mesh With School Goals and With Other Plans Assess District’s and Schools’ Capacity to Implement the Plan Present Roles and Responsibilities for Implementation Provide Opportunities for Full Discussion Plan for the Long Haul Obtain Commitment From All Stakeholders Develop a Comprehensive Professional Development Plan Develop and Use a Self-Assessment Checklist for Implementation Action Planning 4. Step 2: Developing Schoolwide Behavior Expectations Adopting Guidelines for Selecting Schoolwide Behavior Expectations Applying Schoolwide Behavior Expectations to Major Common Areas in the School 5. Step 3: Teaching the Behavior Expectations Teaching Behavior Expectations to Younger Students (K–3) Teaching Behavior Expectations to Older Students (Grades 4–12) and a Maintenance Teaching Plan for Younger Students Generalizing the Teaching to All Common Areas 6. Step 4: Maintaining the Behavior Expectations Systematic Review Modeling by Faculty Through Informal Practices Schoolwide Recognition Plans 7. Step 5: Correcting Problem Behavior A System Involving a Continuum of Responses for the Full Range of Problem Behavior Overview of Continuum of Responses for Addressing Problem Behavior Office-Managed Behavior Staff-Managed Behavior 8. Step 6: Using Data Effectively Defining the Role of the Leadership Team Clarifying the Purposes of an Effective Data Management System Establishing Guidelines in Developing a Data Management System 9. Step 7: Sustaining the Plan for the Long Haul Implementation Phases and Drivers General Implementation-Stage Logic Based on Action Planning Ongoing Process Factors PBIS Exemplar for Sustainability Ongoing Refresh Meetings to Sustain the Plan Future Directions Concluding Remarks Appendices (Appendices A-Q, Reproducible Checklists, Plans, and Forms) References Credits Index

About the Author :
Geoff Colvin draws on his experience as a classroom teacher, administrator, researcher and instructor at the University of Oregon, and national public school consultant. Widely recognized as an expert on the subjects of school safety and violence prevention, Colvin has provided inservice training for teachers and administrators in more than 100 school districts and agencies nationally and internationally. He recently served as research associate at the University of Oregon and independent consultant in the areas of schoolwide discipline, school climate, school safety, and violence prevention, classroom management, and individual cases involving students with severe behavior disorders. Geoff also directed a juvenile detention school and a school program for youth with serious emotionally disturbances. Colvin has authored more than sixty publications, books, book chapters, journal articles, and video programs on the subject of teaching and managing students who exhibit the full range of problem behavior. George Sugai is Professor and Carole J. Neag Endowed Chair in the Neag School of Education, Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. His research and practice interests include school-wide positive behavior support, behavioral disorders, applied behavior analysis, classroom and behavior management, and school discipline. He has been a classroom teacher, program director, personnel preparer, and applied researcher. Dr. Sugai has a noteworthy publi¬cation record in refereed journals having published over 130 peer-reviewed articles, numerous monographs, and five college textbooks on effective teaching practices and Applied Behavior Analysis. He presented at numerous local, national, and international conferences and professional meetings, and has served as advisor to the U.S. Departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services. His international work includes projects and consultation in eleven countries. He is co-director of the OSEP Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), research scientist in the UConn Center on Behavioral Education and Research, and co-director of the OSEP Early Childhood Personnel Center.

Review :
"Whether you are just getting started with the PBIS framework or you are well-versed in implementation, this book is a fantastic resource. It logically lays out and connects the "what’s," "why’s," and "how’s" of schoolwide practices with procedural steps for effective implementation. This will not be a book you read and put on the shelf. Instead, it will become the action in your planning by following the steps, using the checklists, and providing staff with the content and language that makes the steps of implementation relevant and explicit." "For over ten years, Seven Steps for Developing a Proactive Schoolwide Discipline Plan has been a landmark publication for teachers as well as those in school leadership.  This revised edition outlines guiding principles and procedures for creating safe and positive learning environments that maximise student learning in today’s complex school environments. Its depth of content spans the needs of beginning teachers interested in the teaching and learning process through to school leaders seeking a roadmap for school improvement. For schools implementing Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, this text provides a well-constructed foundation for beginners, through to offering expert guidance to nurture and sustain your endeavours."  "For a schoolwide system to be truly successful, everyone involved--from superintendent to support staff--must understand their responsibilities within the system and appreciate the fundamental principles on which it is based. Whether your school is considering a comprehensive system for the first time or attempting to improve on an existing system, this book will be your guide. It is clear and accessible, using current research to explain the best practices involved in maximizing the behavioral and academic outcomes of all students. You will learn how to set up the optimal conditions for desired behaviors to increase, and also how to effectively intervene when they do not.  The appendix is also full of resources that can get your classroom and your school on a more positive and productive path, starting today!"  "Seven Steps for Developing a Proactive Schoolwide Discipline Plan is a must-have resource for school teams that want to systematically boost school climate. Rarely can one resource integrate research from both teaching and learning, school improvement, and implementation science with practical wisdom from schools into an accessible step-by-step process that teams can sustain over time. Colvin and Sugai have done just that--and included a number of practical tools and documents to boot." "Seven Steps for Developing a Proactive Schoolwide Discipline plan is a masterful update! Geoff Colvin and George Sugai have provided practitioner and research communities with a theoretically-grounded, highly practical, and user-friendly resource to support the design and installation of a proactive schoolwide discipline plan. The resources will be useful to district and school-site leaders and classroom teachers committed to providing safe, positive, and productive learning environments."